Asta.
[Vehemently.] Oh, don’t say that!
Allmers.
Yes, it is true. He did not love you—not as he ought to have.
Asta.
[Evasively.] No, perhaps not as he loved you. That was only natural.
Allmers.
[Continuing.] And he was often hard to your mother, too—at least in the last years.
Asta.
[Softly.] Mother was so much, much younger than he—remember that.